ORONO — Three children squirmed their way to the front of a crowd of 15,000 people to sit close to the stage where President John F. Kennedy spoke at the University of Maine on Oct. 19, 1963. The children, from neighboring French Island in Old Town, were excited to be on campus and to see […]
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Marching for King’s dream: ‘The task is not done’
WASHINGTON (AP) — Tens of thousands of people marched to the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial and down the National Mall on Saturday, commemorating the 50th anniversary of King’s famous speech and pledging that his dream includes equality for gays, Latinos, the poor and the disabled. The event was an homage to a generation of […]
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